TRIBUNAL RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE. - Liste générale et très-exacte de - Lot 246

TRIBUNAL RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE. - Liste générale et très-exacte de tous ceux qui ont été condamnés à mort par le Tribunal révolutionnaire établi à Paris depuis le début de la Révolution. Paris, Channaud, Marchand, et tous les Libraires et Mds de Nouveautés, L'an troisième de la République [1793]. 12 parts in one volume in-12, half green basane with corners, smooth spine decorated (Binding of the period). 800/1 000 € Rare complete collection, in 12 issues (n°I-XI and IX bis), of this appalling periodic list giving the names and reasons for the convictions of 2,790 victims executed in Paris by order of the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1792-1793. It includes the names of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Charlotte Corday convicted of murdering Marat, Olympe de Gouges, the Duc d'Orléans, Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, Hébert, Camille Desmoulins, Danton and Robespierre. Copy of the Countess Potocka (1852-1930), with armorial bookplate and wet stamp on the title: wife of the wealthy Polish Count Félix-Nicolas Potocki, a diplomat stationed in Paris, Countess Emmanuela Potocka entertained a court of assiduous suitors in her sumptuous hotel on Avenue Friedland, where she organized the famous Macchabees dinners. Under the pseudonym Horatio, Proust devoted an article to her in the Figaro of May 13, 1904: Le salon de la comtesse Potocka. Paper defect on p. 30 of n°V, slight wetness at the head of n°I, some foxing. Binding rubbed.